How to reveal EXIF data in iPhoto ‘09
iPhoto’s Info button used to reveal EXIF data; aperture, shutter speed, ISO and more, but with iPhoto ‘09 the addition of the handy geo-tagging feature kind of replaced it. Well you’ll be pleased to know the EXIF data is still accessible.
Find your photos
From the source list, choose your collection of photos that you want to examine. It could be from anywhere in the Library; Events, Albums, Last Import and the rest. I’m scanning Events here to find some shots I took of London.
Open and view the Event
After locating the collection or Event, double click on it to reveal the contents.
Select your photo
A single click on the thumbnail will select it, and if you hover the pointer over the same, you’ll notice the Info button will reveal itself in the bottom lower right corner. Don’ t click it. If you do, you’ll pull up the Places dialog (shown above).
Reveal EXIF data
Okay, so we haven’t clicked on the Info button, so what step do we need to find the camera’s shooting data? Well, it’s nearly as simple as before, either choose Photos > Show Extended Photo Info or, if you prefer, select Option, Command and I (for Info). If you don’t know what they are, look at the symbols above in the selection or press ⌥⌘I.
EXIF data revealed
Following the step before, we can see the EXIF data is revealed for that particular image. It’s not as extensive as you’ll find in Apple’s pro post-prduction tool, Aperture, and you will need to close the dialog and move onto the next thumbnail for the EXIF data each time, but but it does show some very handy info.
And again…
Here’s another showing the GPS data, this time from the expanded view.
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Author: Kevin Carter
Kevin Carter is the Editorial Director of iPhoto - MacCreate, as well as a freelance photographer and journalist for a number of technology and photography titles. Over the past decade, these have included the British Journal of Photography, Professional Photographer (UK), Digital Photo Pro (UK), DSLR User, CNET UK, PhotographyBLOG, MacUser (UK) and MacFormat (UK), amongst others.
3 Comments
Bob Toft
January 4th, 2010
Hi Kevin
The extended data has no information about camera (I use Canon 5D) and there is nothing under the heading EXPOSURE DATA.
I have snow leopard and iPhoto 9. Does snow leopard screw up something?
Kevin Carter
January 4th, 2010
Hi Bob
I thought that was an interesting observation, so I imported some sample shots I have, taken with the Canon EOS 5D and using Snow Leopard. I have to say I get both camera data and exposure data with both Raw and Jpeg files – so that’s not v helpful for you. Have you edited the images (using another app) prior to importing them in iPhoto perhaps?
Switcher
February 23rd, 2010
This doesn´t show all Exif data, only some of it. Examples of missing data is:
- Lens type
- Focus distance
- White balance